Take your creations beyond the workshop and onto the stage with diy music instruments! Let us show you how these creations range from simple, basic setups that produce beautiful sounds to more complex projects that require a greater level of engineering knowledge. With these tutorials and examples, we’ll guide you on this journey to make your own musical instrument for experimental, artistic or everyday use – so whether you’re starting out new or a seasoned sound creator, come explore the wonderful world of making your own music.
Matt posted the steps he took to build a proper stompbox development platform – Designing and building your own guitar effects is a great way to combine a passion for electronics and guitar. However, when testing new designs, I found the fragile circuit on the solderless breadboard was difficult to connect to patch cords and control […]
Colin Mann of Los Angeles created a 64-button RGB monome midi controller sporting 6 slide faders, an IR sensor, a touch-sensor strip, 4 arcade buttons, a 4-digit nixie display, 6-port USB hub, and more. It’s sweet! After more hours than I’d like to admit, even if I actually knew how many, I’m done. I started […]
MAKE subscriber Mike Walters (NYC), from Mystery Circuits, sent us a link to this amazing project he did that turned a Tascam 4-track tape recorder into a programmable drum machine. I love that it looks like something off the set of the original Star Trek. I almost expect to hear the voice of Majel Barrett […]
We’ve covered plasma speakers before, and these vids don’t really add much in the way of additional info, they’re just different variations on the theme — a theme I find endlessly fascinating. The top vid is by way of TechEBlog, the second is from John Warren (via Adafuit). Check out his blog post below for […]
Last year, artist Kyle McDonald was trying to figure out ways to get high-frequency analog signals out of his computer, and noticed that nice VGA connector on the side of the computer.
Inspired by the Kaoss Pad and monome music controller/interfaces, Alexander Randon created the Kaossonome The Kaossonome is my first electronic music controller design. It interfaces the musician via a touchscreen, resting on top of a 256 LED matrix, and eight rotary encoders with pushâ€buttons, four on opposite sides of the LED matrix. Enclosed within an […]
Instructables user st.paul writes: This bass is made from a wooden boat paddle, a piezo buzzer, weed eater strings and a few other odds and ends. For what it is and how little it costs (20-25 dollars with all new parts), the quality of sound is unbelievable. If you’re thinking about taking up bass or […]
